TOD

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde." Spenser. The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.

2.
n.

An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.

3.
n.

A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail. The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson. Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U.S.] Knight.

4.
v.

To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]


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